form rel attribute

Category: DOM
Type: Chromium catches up
Status: Enabled by default (Chrome 107)
Intent stage: Prepare to ship

Breaking change: No
Enterprise impact: None
Spec maturity: Published standard
Web Platform Tests: Yes

WPT details: https://wpt.fyi/results/html/semantics/forms/form-submission-target

Summary

This feature adds the "rel" attribute to form elements, which makes it possible to prevent window.opener from being present on websites navigated to by form elements which have rel=noopener and prevents the referer header from being sent with rel=noreferrer.

Standards & signals

Specification: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/forms.html#attr-form-rel
Firefox: No signal
Safari: Shipped/Shipping
Web developers: No signals
Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=931209

Ecosystem

Web Platform Tests: https://wpt.fyi/results/?q=html%2Fsemantics%2Fforms%2Fform-submission-target
Chrome Platform Showcase: https://chrome-platform-showcase.paulkinlan-ea.deno.net/features
GenDN reference: https://gendn.paulkinlan-ea.deno.net/features
chrome.dev demos search: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Achrome.dev+form%20rel%20attribute
MDN Web Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/search?q=form%20rel%20attribute
Baseline status: https://webstatus.dev/?q=form%20rel%20attribute

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